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Each year, a number of Community Contests are held, typically on the forum, to challenge the collective might and magik of BrikWarriors the world over. The winners of these grand contests earn Eternal Titles, associated digital badges (often pinned to winning posts and displayed in the winner's forum signature), and take their rightful places in the annals of BrikWars History. Most Contests last about a month but some last for two. For each contest, three Primary Judges are chosen from community volunteers by the contest's manager. A Secondary Judge is sometimes chosen to judge the entries of any Primary Judge who wishes to enter the contest themselves. Rarely, Backup Judges are chosen to fill any of these spots if need be. Historically, our Contest Managers have been community members Zupponn and Quantumsurfer. Judges are given one or two weeks following the contest period to judge entries based on guidelines given in the contest rules. Contest rules are posted to the appropriate subforums each year for reference. They are sometimes refined to better represent the spirit in which they were created, fairness among participants, stronger judging criteria, and general parity between contests. The original post of the thread will often collect links to all of that contests entries for the duration of the contest so judges may easily find and rate the entries. The general purpose of each contest, while certainly including a healthy amount of competition, is really more about generating and inspiring more community driven Ossum content. They are opportunities for community members to show off their varied skills and talents, appreciate the skills and talents of their fellows, and earn constructive criticism. As our oldest and most popular contest, celebrating the birthday of BrikWars, our contest year begins in October with the Halloween Hellhunt. The rest of the current contests are described chronologically below. The final section, BrikWars Royalty, tracks the winners and notable participants of these contests.

Schedule of Contests Held

January: Rekon Kickoff

February: February FigBarf

March: Blarney Build

April:

May: Battlepack Mayhem

June: June July Jamboree Begins

July: June July Jamboree Ends

August:

September: Hundred Piece Hullabaloo

October: Halloween Hellhunt

November: BrikFiction Festival Begins

December: BrikFiction Festival Ends

Halloween Hellhunt

	[...] to celebrate this glorious year of death and destruction, we will once again be holding the Annual Halloween Hellhunt Battle Report Contest, held in honor of Brikwars's birthday. Here, the Brikwarriors fight for the title of the Lord of Battle, topping each other with mad tales of war and conquest. [...] Yes, this is just a reason for everyone to get to read a megaton of battle reports on Halloween, night of madness and the birthday of Brikwars. Get out there and record those battles, mates. Good luck.
- From the Annual Introduction

Contest Years

2010|2011|2012|2013|2014|2015|2016|2017|2018|2019|2020|2021|2022|2023|2024|2025|

Participation

The Hellhunt is a Battle Report Contest held every October. The first was held in 2010. Participants record a game played at home (as opposed to a game played by post over the forum or chat) and submit a polished presentation of the proceedings to the "Reports from the Field" subforum. Often, this game will have spooky, Halloween based theme to it but this isn't strictly required.

Judgement

Judges rate entries on five categories: Gameplay, Photography, Violence, Writing, and Overall Appeal. A Theme is declared by the Contest Master each year and is taken into consideration by the judges when rating Overall Appeal. Each category is rated on a scale of 1-5. These five values are averaged to generate a single judge's score. Then, the three single judge scores are averaged to generate a final score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. The Contest Master acts as a tiebreaker.

Rewards

Winners earn the title "Lord of Battle" and its associated digital badge. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer from 2010 - 2018 and by ninja_bait from 2019 onward. In 2026, Quantumsurfer colorized and made minor alterations to ninja_bait's original design.

2010 Lord of Battle Badge
2011 Lord of Battle Badge
2012 Lord of Battle Badge
2013 Lord of Battle Badge
2014 Lord of Battle Badge
2015 Lord of Battle Badge
2016 Lord of Battle Badge
2017 Lord of Battle Badge
2018 Lord of Battle Badge
2019 Lord of Battle Badge
2020 Lord of Battle Badge
2021 Lord of Battle Badge
2022 Lord of Battle Badge
2023 Lord of Battle Badge
2024 Lord of Battle Badge
2025 Lord of Battle Badge
2026 Lord of Battle Badge

BrikFiction Festival

	Welcome to the coming end of another Rekonstruktion, BrikWarriors, as we prepare to dive into a two month long celebration honoring the Stories of the BrikVerse. We stand upon the precipice of time as our minifigs and sigfigs, creatures and creations, castles and kingdoms, and starships and space empires are cast into an ever evolving community Kanon. The deadly perils of countless battlefields, the twisted and labyrinthine halls of power and politiks, the epic struggles of Heroes and Villains. They fight and dance and collide together at the heart of our interest, the Stories of their sheer Ossumness demanding to be told. Told and, in the age old tradition, passed on to the next generation, shooting like brilliant stars through the bright imaginations of those yet to arrive. And in the telling, reigniting the old creative flame and giving rise to new Stories for the Rekons to come.
- From the Annual Introduction

Contest Years

2015|2016|2017|2018|2019|2020|2021|2022|2023|2024|2025|

Participation

The FicFest is a Short Story Contest held every year in the months of November and December. The first was held in 2015. Participants pen an original short story of between 500-3000 words, using any style or theme and approach to subject matter, covering any part of BrikVersian Lore. The stories are submitted to the BrikFic subforum.

Judgement

Judges rate entries based on four main categories: Concept and Theme, Form, Voice, and Style. These are rated on a scale of 1-10, except Style, which is rated on a scale of 1-20. A fifth category, Presentation, is used as a tiebreaker. It is rated on a scale of 1-10. The four main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Presentation Score (the three Presentation ratings added together) among them.

Rewards

Winners earn the title "Loremaster" and its associated digital badge. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.

2015 LoreMaster Badge
2016 LoreMaster Badge
2017 LoreMaster Badge
2018 LoreMaster Badge
2019 LoreMaster Badge
2020 LoreMaster Badge
2021 LoreMaster Badge
2022 LoreMaster Badge
2023 LoreMaster Badge
2024 LoreMaster Badge
2025 LoreMaster Badge

Rekon Kickoff

	Welcome, BrikWarriors, to the dawn of a glorious new Rekonstruktion! In some places, the streets are swept clean, the fields are lush and green, the sun dappled forests are thickly boughed, and the majestic peaks stand tall and proud. The army regulars are all lined up in neat little rows, their equipment shiny and new, their uniforms starched and absent of explosive debris. Freshly painted starships sit in their docks with weapons systems fully charged while creatures and critters on planets far below scent the air for the coming danger. Because in other places, the battle has always been and always will be. Minifigs stand, blades dripping blood, in piles of corpses as lasers lance overhead and topple the last remnants of once great empires. Realities smash together and collectively reassemble. The whole BrikVerse heaves in a breath of newly minted, grade-a, fresh friggin' air as the New Year rolls in.
- From the Annual Introduction

Contest Years

2016|2017|2018|2019|2020|2021|2022|2023|2024|2025|2026|

Participation

The Kickoff is a Battle Report Contest held every January. The first was held in 2016. Participants record a battle played at home, over the forum, or over the chat (so long as the some portion of the battle takes place within the contest's submission period) and submit a polished presentation of the proceedings to the appropriate subforum (typically, "Reports from the Field" or "Forum Battles"). In 2025, The Rekon Rekap was added to the contest as a special community event that runs in tandem. The Rekap allows community members to submit their favorite batreps from the previous year (excluding previous contest winners) to a giant poll the community as a whole then votes on to determine a favorite.

Judgement

Judges rate entries based on four main categories: Fun, Violence, Presentation, and Writing. Fun and Violence are rated on a scale of 1-10. Presentation and Writing are rated on a scale from 1-5. A fifth category, Theme (which changes each year), is used as a tiebreaker. It is rated on a scale of 1-10. The four main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Theme Score (the three Theme ratings added together) among them.

Rewards

Winners earn the title "Monarch" and its associated digital badge. Anyone who participated in their battle and aided in their ascension becomes a member of the Royal Court, earning the title "Courtier" and its associated digital badge. Courtiers were originally called Royals, which was changed to Royal Court in 2022, and to the present title in 2023. The winner of the Rekap joins the year's Royal Court, earning the title of "Knight" and its associated digital badge. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.

2016 Monarch Badge
2016 Royal Badge
2017 Monarch Badge
2017 Royal Badge
2018 Monarch Badge
2018 Royal Badge
2019 Monarch Badge
2019 Royal Badge
2020 Monarch Badge
2020 Royal Badge
2021 Monarch Badge
2021 Royal Badge
2022 Monarch Badge
2022 Royal Court Badge
2023 Monarch Badge
2023 Courtier Badge
2024 Monarch Badge
2024 Courtier Badge
2025 Monarch Badge
2025 Courtier Badge
2025 Knight Badge
2026 Monarch Badge
2026 Courtier Badge
2026 Knight Badge

February FigBarf

	Following the chaos and battle of the Rekonstruktion, the Brikverse is often left covered in the dismembered parts and spare doohickeys of slain minifigures, leaving a wealth of perfectly good ABS elements just scattered all throughout the multiverse, waiting for their time to come. Occasionally, in the months after the Rekonstruktion, a mysterious cosmic alchemy will occur, causing these parts to spontaneously mix and bond together, suddenly birthing legions of brand new minifigures into the world. This event is colloquially known as a FigBarf.
- From the Annual Introduction

Contest Years

2019|2020|2021|2022|2023|2024|2025|2026|

Participation

The FigBarf is a Minifig Building Contest held every February. The first was held in 2019. Participants create specialized minifigs using either unmodified elements, customized elements, or digital recreations. To avoid clogging the forum, participants place all their entries in a single thread in the Armory subforum. Entries are submitted to one of three categories: Purist Pugilists (for pure construction toy builds), Kustom Kharacters (where anything custom is allowed), and Digital Dudes (for digital minifigs).

Judgement

Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Style, Story, and Presentation. Style and Story are rated on a scale of 1-10, while Presentation is rated on a scale from 1-5. A fourth category, Thematic Potential, is used as a tiebreaker and is rated on a scale from 1-10. The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Thematic Potential Score (the three Thematic Potential ratings added together) among them.

Rewards

The winner of each submission category earns a title and a badge: "Purism Prometheus" for Pugilists, "Kustomizer Kraftsman" for Characters, and "Digital Diva" for Dudes. Originally, there was an overall winner called StudGod but this position and title (for this contest) was retired in 2021. The digital category was added the same year. Contest badges were designed by Bookwyrm from 2019 - 2022 and by Quantumsurfer from 2023 onward.

2019 Purism Prometheus Badge
2019 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge
2019 StudGod Badge
2020 Purism Prometheus Badge
2020 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge
2020 StudGod Badge
2021 Purism Prometheus Badge
2021 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge
2021 Digital Diva Badge
2022 Purism Prometheus Badge
2022 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge
2022 Digital Diva Badge
2023 Purism Prometheus Badge
2023 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge
2023 Digital Diva Badge
2024 Purism Prometheus Badge
2024 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge
2024 Digital Diva Badge
2025 Purism Prometheus Badge
2025 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge
2025 Digital Diva Badge
2026 Purism Prometheus Badge
2026 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge
2026 Digital Diva Badge

Blarney Build

	Welcome, BrikWarriors, to the age of Brikbuilt Escalation. In this storied fragment of the shattered chronology, all manner of characters (from lowly minifig to lowly human) gather at the most famous bar of them all, that grand old ORANGE TRANSPARENT motherfucker of a meeting place, the Four Rums. Whether drinking or not, these epic personages sweep in between adventures from across the spectrum of spacetime to swap tall tales and exaggerate their own Ossum. Bawdy fish stories and bold, raucous boasting are the order of the day and only the most skillful storytellers are raised in esteem in the eyes of their fellows. But only those who live by the age old adage "pics or it didn't happen" can truly "prove" their Ossum with a show and tell that will spread their name and legend out among the stars.
- From the Annual Introduction

Contest Years

2016|2017|2018|2019|2020|2021|2022|2023|2024|2025|2026|

Participation

The Blarney is a Construction Contest held every March. The first was held in 2016. Participants create any kind of build (from small vehicles to entire vignettes using either real construction brick toys or representative digital programs and post entries to the Armory or LDD subforums. Entries are submitted to one of three categories: Brik by Brik (for real builds), Digital Dimension (for digital builds), and Drunken Madness (for either kind of build where the builder is legally, but responsibly, hammered).

Judgement

Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Style, Substance, and Presentation. Style and Substance are rated on a scale of 1-10, while Presentation is rated on a scale from 1-5. A fourth category, Boast, is used as a tiebreaker and is rated on a scale from 1-10. Boast is a little different from the tiebreakers of other contests because it does not necessarily rely on the build presented in the entry but rather on the exagggerated stories the builder tells about the build (in real life or in the narrative of the build). The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Boast Score (the three Boast ratings added together) among them.

Rewards

The winner of each submission category earns a title and a badge: "Brikmason" for Brik by Brik, "Arkitekt" for Dimension, and "Drunkard" for Madness. Originally, there was an overall winner called StudGod but this position and title (for this contest) was retired in 2021. Brikmason was originally titled StudLord but this was changed after the first year in 2017. The other two rewards were shortened to their current one word titles in 2023. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.

2016 Digital Arkitekt
2016 StudLord Badge
2016 Town Drunkard Badge
2016 StudGod Badge
2017 Digital Arkitekt
2017 BrikMason Badge
2017 Town Drunkard Badge
2017 StudGod Badge
2018 Digital Arkitekt
2018 BrikMason Badge
2018 Town Drunkard Badge
2018 StudGod Badge
2019 Digital Arkitekt Badge
2019 BrikMason Badge
2019 Town Drunkard Badge
2019 StudGod Badge
2020 Digital Arkitekt Badge
2020 BrikMason Badge
2020 Town Drunkard Badge
2020 StudGod Badge
2021 Digital Arkitekt Badge
2021 BrikMason Badge
2021 Town Drunkard Badge
2022 Digital Arkitekt Badge
2022 BrikMason Badge
2022 Town Drunkard Badge
2023 Digital Arkitekt Badge
2023 BrikMason Badge
2023 Town Drunkard Badge
2024 Digital Arkitekt Badge
2024 BrikMason Badge
2024 Town Drunkard Badge
2025 Digital Arkitekt Badge
2025 BrikMason Badge
2025 Town Drunkard Badge
2026 Digital Arkitekt Badge
2026 BrikMason Badge
2026 Town Drunkard Badge

Feast of Fools

	BrikWarriors, rejoice! The time for shenanigans and frivolity is at hand. Throughout the shattered spacetime of the BrikVerse, at some point in each Rekonstruktion, the background Bozon radiation suddenly, mysteriously, and violently spikes and sends a shockwave of ridiculousness roaring with laughter throughout existence. Everything briefly goes wonky in the wake of the hijinks. Parallel universes are born and die. Forgotten fragments of time and space suddenly reappear and vanish without a trace. Empires great and wide cease to exist while he tiniest of factions becomes powerful beyond measure. Heroes are born with different faces. Forces and phenomena have different names and exude new powers. Every troll is trolled and as new background music is hilariously chosen to blare across the Far-Ums Emergency Broadcast System...again, the natives chuckle and shrug and the chaotic mess called the BrikVerse gets on as it always has.
- From the Annual Introduction

Contest Years

This contest has been discontinued. It was cancelled due to low participation.

2017|2018

Participation

The Feast of Fools was a What If? Contest that took place in April, from 2017 to 2018. In it, participants created any kind of presentation they wished (battle reports, forum battles, chat battles, magic soaps, brikfics, setting content writeups, graphics or art, videos, etc.) that non-canonically expanded upon, recognizably transformed, or otherwise explored the content creations of other community members (with respect given to "Everyone's the Boss of Their Own Toys" and similar community guidelines). Primarily, contest entries explored alternative possibilities such as What If scenarios, Elseworlds-like content, Mirror Universes, and so on. The contest was held in good fun and celebrated collaboration and brainstorming community based content. Submissions were entered anywhere on the forum and linked to from the contest's thread.

Judgement

Judges rated entries based on three main categories: Fun, Transformation, and Depth. A fourth category, Presentation, was used as a tiebreaker. All categories were rated on a scale of 1-10. The three main category scores were added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score was added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry won the contest. Tied Final Scores were broken by the highest Presentation Score (the three Presentation ratings added together) among them.

Rewards

Winners earned the title "Grand Jester" and its associated digital badge. Additionally, Grand Jesters were added to that year's Royal Court (determined in January by the Rekon Kickoff Contest). Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.

2017 Feast of Fools Badge
2018 Feast of Fools Badge

Battlepack Mayhem

	Between the raucous frivolity and shenaniganry of the bozon-infused month of April and the cross-cultural exchange and unbridled creativity of the Jamboree in June, the minifigs birthed only a couple of months earlier during the FigBarf join their grizzled elders in the gleeful konstruktion of the factions which set to dominate the BrikVerse for the remainder of the Rekon to come. Here, they'll set down their cultural identities, choose their weapons of war, and (most importantly) pick out their Hats. When fortune and glory await, who will emerge to claim them?
- From the Annual Introduction

Contest Years

2023|2024|2025|2026|

Participation

Mayhem is a Minifig Squad Building Composite Contest held in May. The first was held in 2023. Participants create a battlepack (around 4 minifigs and a small associated build), in real bricks or with digital representations. Entries are submitted to one of two categories: New (for new canon one year old or younger) or Legacy Faction (for a take on existing canon, older than one year, respecting Creative Commons guidelines). These entries are posted to the Armoury or LDD forum, as appropriate.

Judgement

Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Theme, Substance, and Story. A fourth category, Presentation, is used as a tiebreaker. All categories are rated on a scale of 1-10. The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Presentation Score (the three Presentation ratings added together) among them.

Rewards

The winner of each submission category earns a title and a badge: "Pioneer" for New Factions and "Founder" for Legacy Factions. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.

2023 Founder Badge
2023 Pioneer Badge
2024 Founder Badge
2024 Pioneer Badge
2025 Founder Badge
2025 Pioneer Badge
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2026 Founder Badge
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2026 Pioneer Badge

June July Jamboree

	Welcome, BrikWarriors, to the midpoint of the year. It is a time of celebration across the BrikVerse as kanon settles into the comfortable, repeating pattern of staggered briks. For many, it is also a celebration of shared community as the various and sundry factions for the rekonstruktion come together in a conglomeration of cross-cultural creation and exchange. Fireworks flare in the skies above parties full of dancing minifigs drunk on the Rule of Cool (and more than a few on Maniac Beer). The denizens of the Brikverse let loose in full swing and, for this brief period each year, really allow their creative sides to shine. Where minifigs of the past may have fought viciously during these times for the sake of nationalism and the natural minifig inclination for violence, modern minifigs have discovered they have just way more fun this way and have way more stuff to play with later if they do things this way anyway. These celebrations, the relationships that form during them (whether friendships or rivalries), and all the badass stuff from ships and vehicles to bases will set the tone for the remainder of the rekon.
- From the Annual Introduction

Contest Years

The annual introduction was changed to its current form in 2020 during a challenging time when folks didn't need yet another special event satirizing violence but instead might find something unifying more useful. The event still operates wholly within the bounds of the BrikVersian Setting and extended community canon.

2018|2019|2020|2021|2022|2023|2024|2025|2026|

Participation

The Jamboree is a Scene Building Contest held each year through the months of June and July. The first was held in 2018. Participants create any kind of scenic build using real construction bricks or representative digital programs. Entries are posted to the Armory or LDD subforums.

Judgement

Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Style, Substance, and Theme. A fourth category, Presentation, is used as a tiebreaker. All categories are rated on a scale of 1-10. The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Presentation Score (the three Presentation ratings added together) among them.

Rewards

Instead of submission category winners, this contest awards a title and a badge to the top three scoring entries: "Master of Ceremonies" (for 1st place), "Director" (for 2nd place), and "Photographer" (for 3rd place). Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.

2018 Photographer Badge
2018 Director Badge
2018 Master of Ceremonies Badge
2019 Photographer Badge
2019 Director Badge
2019 Master of Ceremonies Badge
2020 Photographer Badge
2020 Director Badge
2020 Master of Ceremonies Badge
2021 Photographer Badge
2021 Director Badge
2021 Master of Ceremonies Badge
2022 Photographer Badge
2022 Director Badge
2022 Master of Ceremonies Badge
2023 Photographer Badge
2023 Director Badge
2023 Master of Ceremonies Badge
2024 Photographer Badge
2024 Director Badge
2024 Master of Ceremonies Badge
2025 Photographer Badge
2025 Director Badge
2025 Master of Ceremonies Badge
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2026 Photographer Badge
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2026 Director Badge
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2026 Master of Ceremonies Badge

Hundred Piece Hullabaloo

	In the month of September, all across the Legitimitium MultiVerse, ABS and established parts grow mysteriously rare. Building slows and, as it does, minifigs all over the BrikVerse begin to lose their grip on reality. They panic. They riot. It's really just another excuse to beat the snot out of one another. Some point to the sudden appearance of massive SHIPs during this month as a correlation but many BrikVersian scientists are dismissive, citing a favorite adage that correlation is not causation. Perhaps they are right or perhaps they are covering for their governments. Either way, for the average minifig, it's just another reason to pick up a pitchfork. Maddened, howling minifigs the BrikVerse over frantically scramble to tear up as many briks as they can find and assemble some kind of reality out of them. Mechaniks and Konstruktion Workers who have let their little contractual projects and sites sit untended for the entire year suddenly get all their work done this month and collect overtime pay for doing it. Like a busy hive, minifigs swarm creation, desperate to do anything at all to avoid the existential despair of endless blank baseplates and massive bugger off starships in their skies.
- From the Annual Introduction

Contest Years

2017|2018|2019|2020|2021|2022|2023|2024|2025|

Participation

The Hullabaloo is a Microbuild Contest held every September. The first was held in 2017. Participants create any kind of build they like using real construction bricks or representative digital programs. Crucially, however, participants are limited to using only 100 pieces.

Judgement

Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Style, Substance, and Presentation. Style and Substance are rated on a scale of 1-10, where Presentation is rated on a scale of 1-5. A fourth category, Story, acts as a tiebreaker and is rated on a scale of 1-10. Like the Blarney's Boast, Story is used here to elaborate on the build using description or narrative. The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Story Score (the three Story ratings added together) among them.

Rewards

Winners earn the title "StudGod" and its associated badge (now the only true way to earn the title). Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.

2017 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge
2018 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge
2019 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge
2020 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge
2021 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge
2022 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge
2023 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge
2024 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge
2025 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge

BrikWars Royalty

The winners of these grand annual Community Contests are given Eternal Titles and take their rightful places in the annals of BrikWars History. The following scroll lists these incredible personages and their respective titles:

AnnoyedZebra, BrikMason, StudGod
aoffan23, StudGod, Master of Ceremonies
Archduke, Digital Arkitekt
Arkbrik, Knight
AZKAMAT, Lord of Battle
bertinator, Photographer, Monarch of 2,023, 2,024, and 2,026, Two-Time Purism Prometheus, Two-Time Master of Ceremonies, Founder, Two-Time Lord of Battle
- 2,023 Royal Court: Cyberman, BrickWarrior, Mr. President, Vyron, Dienekes22
- 2,024 Royal Court: Bragallot, Dienekes22, MadMario, Nervyr, Quantumsurfer
- 2,026 Royal Court: Dienekes (Courtier and Knight), Nervyr, Quantumsurfer, MadMario, Bragallot
brickvignettes, StudGod
Bookwyrm, Badge Designer, Monarch of 2,019, Director
Bragallot, Loremaster
Colette, Monarch of 2,017 and 2,018, LoreMaster, Grand Jester
- 2,017 Royal Court: Scratch, Quantumsurfer, Kommander Ken, Silverdream
- 2,018 Royal Court: Scratch, Quantumsurfer, Lawmaster
Cyberman, StudGod
Dienekes22, Lord of Battle, Two-Time LoreMaster, Master of Ceremonies, Director, Founder, BrikMason
Duerer, Town Drunkard, Lord of Battle, LoreMaster, Six-Time Digital Arkitekt, Four-Time Digital Diva
Eliphaser, Pioneer
EternityOfDeath, Director, Master of Ceremonies
FEEB, Loremaster
Food_Truk, Lord of Battle
fredde, StudGod, Digital Architekt
Gorvoslov, Monarch of 2,021, Lord of Battle
Kaplan, Digital Arkitekt, Photographer, Director, Master of Ceremonies
Kastrenzo, Two-Time StudGod
Killer Karetsu, Lord of Battle
Kommander Ken, Lord of Battle, Kustomizer Kraftsman, StudGod, Loremaster
MadMario, Two-Time Purism Prometheus, Four-Time Brikmason, Two-Time StudGod, Monarch of 2,020, Three-Time Town Drunkard, Two-Time Lord of Battle
Mr. President, Director
Nerv, Monarch of 2,025, Kustomizer Kraftsman
- 2,025 Royal Court: EternityofDeath, ThePhoenix, Quantumsurfer, Vomarsk, Arkbrik (Knight), Mergo (Honorary Undisputed GOAT)
ninja_bait, Badge Designer, Four-Time Town Drunkard, StudGod, BrikMason, Master of Ceremonies, Lord of Battle
not Dave or Daniel, Digital Arkitekt
Ooyama, Photographer
Quantumsurfer, Contest Master, Badge Designer, LoreMaster, StudGod
Radekal, StudGod, Two-Time LoreMaster, Founder
RedRover, Town Drunkard, Purism Prometheus, Photographer
Red_SPAMbot, Purism Prometheus, Kustomizer Kraftsman
sahasrahla, Purism Prometheus
silasw, Photographer
Silent-sigfig, Monarch of 2,016, Town Drunkard, Director
- 2,016 Royal Court: bann154, Valiant, Kastrenzo, mgb519
Silverdream, Grand Jester
Sir Sporktimus, Lord of Battle
Space Bunny, Digital Diva, Photographer, Director
Swordsalmon, Lord of Battle
TEORI, Five-Time Kustomizer Kraftsman, Director, Purism Prometheus, Photographer
Theblackdog, Brikmason
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-Each year, a number of Community Contests are held, typically on the [[forum]], to challenge the collective might and magik of BrikWarriors the world over. The winners of these grand contests are given Eternal Titles and take their rightful places in the annals of BrikWars History.  Most Contests last about a month but some last for two and almost every contest is presided over by a council of volunteer judges approved by the contest's Host.  The general purpose of each contest, while certainly including a healthy amount of competition, is really more about generating and inspiring more community driven [[Ossum]] content.  They are opportunities for community members to show off their varied skills and talents, appreciate the skills and talents of their fellows, and earn constructive criticism.  As our oldest and most popular contest, celebrating the birthday of BrikWars, our contest year begins in October with the Halloween Hellhunt.  The rest of the current contests are described chronologically below.
+Each year, a number of Community Contests are held, typically on the [[forum]], to challenge the collective might and magik of BrikWarriors the world over. The winners of these grand contests earn Eternal Titles, associated digital badges (often pinned to winning posts and displayed in the winner's forum signature), and take their rightful places in the annals of BrikWars History. Most Contests last about a month but some last for two. For each contest, three Primary Judges are chosen from community volunteers by the contest's manager. A Secondary Judge is sometimes chosen to judge the entries of any Primary Judge who wishes to enter the contest themselves. Rarely, Backup Judges are chosen to fill any of these spots if need be. Historically, our Contest Managers have been community members Zupponn and Quantumsurfer. Judges are given one or two weeks following the contest period to judge entries based on guidelines given in the contest rules. Contest rules are posted to the appropriate subforums each year for reference. They are sometimes refined to better represent the spirit in which they were created, fairness among participants, stronger judging criteria, and general parity between contests. The original post of the thread will often collect links to all of that contests entries for the duration of the contest so judges may easily find and rate the entries. The general purpose of each contest, while certainly including a healthy amount of competition, is really more about generating and inspiring more community driven [[Ossum]] content.  They are opportunities for community members to show off their varied skills and talents, appreciate the skills and talents of their fellows, and earn constructive criticism. As our oldest and most popular contest, celebrating the birthday of BrikWars, our contest year begins in October with the Halloween Hellhunt.  The rest of the current contests are described chronologically below. The final section, BrikWars Royalty, tracks the winners and notable participants of these contests.
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 | - From the Annual Introduction
 }}
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Contest Years</div>
+<p>
+[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5707&highlight=halloween+hellhunt '''2010''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8061 '''2011''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10310 '''2012''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11447 '''2013''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13024 '''2014''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14321 '''2015''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15718#p333894 '''2016''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16609#p347156 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17325#p355889 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17724#p360157 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18265 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18582 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18899 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19105 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19276 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19401 '''2025''']|
+</p>
-The Hellhunt is a Battle Report contest held every October.  The first was held in 2010.  Participants record a game played at home (as opposed to a game played by post over the forum or chat) and submit a polished presentation of the proceedings to the "Reports from the Field" subforum.  Often, this game will have spooky, Halloween based theme to it but this isn't strictly required.  Three judges are chosen from among community volunteers (traditionally, one of them is the previous year's winner) to rate each submission to the contest based on the quality of categorical values including Gameplay, Photography, Violence, Writing, and Overall Appeal.  Secondary Judges are called for to judge submissions entered by a current judge.  Each category is rated by a single judge on a scale from 1-5.  These values are added together and divided by five.  Then, those results, representative of each judge, are averaged together for a Final Score, the highest of which determines the contest's winner.  The winner is titled a "Lord of Battle," receives a unique custom digital badge (pictured below), and is marked down in the BrikWars Hall of Fame.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Participation</div>
+<p>
+The Hellhunt is a '''Battle Report Contest''' held every October.  The first was held in 2010.  Participants record a game played at home (as opposed to a game played by post over the forum or chat) and submit a polished presentation of the proceedings to the "Reports from the Field" subforum.  Often, this game will have spooky, Halloween based theme to it but this isn't strictly required.
+</p>
-Contest Badges designed by Quantumsurfer from 2010 - 2018, designed by ninja_bait from 2019 onward.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Judgement</div>
+<p>
+Judges rate entries on five categories: Gameplay, Photography, Violence, Writing, and Overall Appeal. A Theme is declared by the Contest Master each year and is taken into consideration by the judges when rating Overall Appeal. Each category is rated on a scale of 1-5. These five values are averaged to generate a single judge's score. Then, the three single judge scores are averaged to generate a final score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. The Contest Master acts as a tiebreaker.
+</p>
-[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5707&highlight=halloween+hellhunt '''2010''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8061 '''2011''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10310 '''2012''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11447 '''2013''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13024 '''2014''']|[https://www.brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14321 '''2015''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15718#p333894 '''2016''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16609#p347156 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17325#p355889 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17724#p360157 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18265 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18582 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18899 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19105 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19276 '''2024''']|
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Rewards</div>
+<p>
+Winners earn the title '''"Lord of Battle"''' and its associated digital badge. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer from 2010 - 2018 and by ninja_bait from 2019 onward. In 2026, Quantumsurfer colorized and made minor alterations to ninja_bait's original design.
+</p>
 <center>
-<gallery perrow=6>
+<gallery perrow=9>
 File:2010 Lord of Battle Badge.png|''2010 Lord of Battle Badge''
 File:2011 Lord of Battle Badge.png|''2011 Lord of Battle Badge''
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 File:2024 Lord of Battle Badge.png|''2024 Lord of Battle Badge''
 File:2025 Lord of Battle Badge.png|''2025 Lord of Battle Badge''
+File:2026 Lord of Battle Badge.png|''2026 Lord of Battle Badge''
 </gallery>
 </center>
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 | - From the Annual Introduction
 }}
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Contest Years</div>
+<p>
+[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=14533#p315625 '''2015''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=15778#p335075 '''2016''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=16675#p347857 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=17370#p356475 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=17761#p360492 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=18286#p364372 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=18607 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=18916 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=19140 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=19285 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=19406 '''2025''']|
+</p>
-The FicFest is a short story contest held every year in the months of November and December.  The first was held in 2015.  Participants pen an original short story of between 500-2500 words, using any style or theme and approach to subject matter, covering any part of BrikVersian Lore.  The stories are submitted to the BrikFic subforum and are judged at the end of the submission period by three community volunteer judges based on the quality of categorical values including Concept and Theme, Form, Voice, and Style.  Presentation (grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage) is downplayed to lower the barrier to entry and is used only as a tiebreaker category.  The first three categories are rated by a single judge on a scale from 1-10, while Style is rated 1-20.  These scores are added together to get a judge's single Total Score.  Total Scores are added together to get the submission's Final Score, the highest of which determines the contest's winner.  The winner is titled a "LoreMaster," receives a unique custom digital badge (pictured below), and is marked down in the BrikWars Hall of Fame.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Participation</div>
+<p>
+The FicFest is a '''Short Story Contest''' held every year in the months of November and December. The first was held in 2015. Participants pen an original short story of between 500-3000 words, using any style or theme and approach to subject matter, covering any part of BrikVersian Lore. The stories are submitted to the BrikFic subforum.
+</p>
-Contest Badges designed by Quantumsurfer.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Judgement</div>
+<p>
+Judges rate entries based on four main categories: Concept and Theme, Form, Voice, and Style. These are rated on a scale of 1-10, except Style, which is rated on a scale of 1-20. A fifth category, Presentation, is used as a tiebreaker. It is rated on a scale of 1-10. The four main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Presentation Score (the three Presentation ratings added together) among them.
+</p>
-[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=14533#p315625 '''2015''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=15778#p335075 '''2016''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=16675#p347857 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=17370#p356475 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=17761#p360492 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=18286#p364372 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=18607 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=18916 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=19140 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=19285 '''2024''']|
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Rewards</div>
+<p>
+Winners earn the title '''"Loremaster"''' and its associated digital badge. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.
+</p>
 <center>
-<gallery perrow=6>
+<gallery perrow=9>
 File:2015 LoreMaster Badge.png|''2015 LoreMaster Badge''
 File:2016 LoreMaster Badge.png|''2016 LoreMaster Badge''
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 File:2023 LoreMaster Badge.png|''2023 LoreMaster Badge''
 File:2024 LoreMaster Badge.png|''2024 LoreMaster Badge''
+File:2025 LoreMaster Badge.png|''2025 LoreMaster Badge''
 </gallery>
 </center>
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 | - From the Annual Introduction
 }}
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Contest Years</div>
+<p>
+[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14756 '''2016''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15893 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16773 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17449 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17821 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18360 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18678 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18937 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19163 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19296 '''2025''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19425 '''2026''']|
+</p>
-The Kickoff is a Battle Report contest held every January.  The first was held in 2016.  Participants record a battle played at home, over the forum, or over the chat (so long as the entirety of the battle takes place within the contest's submission period) and submit a polished presentation of the proceedings to the appropriate subforum (typically, "Reports from the Field" or "Forum Battles").  The Kickoff is meant to begin new stories for the new year, so theme and content are left to the participant's imagination.  Three judges are chosen from among community volunteers to rate each submission to the contest based on the quality of categorical values including Fun, Violence, Photography, and Writing.  Story is used as a tiebreaker category.  Secondary Judges are called for to judge submissions entered by a current judge.  The last three categories are rated by a single judge on a scale from 1-10, while Fun is rated 1-20.  These scores are added together to get a judge's single Total Score.  Total Scores are added together to get the submission's Final Score, the highest of which determines the contest's winner.  The winner is titled the "Monarch" of that year, receives a unique custom digital badge (pictured below), and is marked down as BrikWars Royalty.  In the event that other BrikWarriors participated in the submission, they may be titled as a "Royal," compose the Monarch's Court for the year, receive a smaller, unique custom digital badge (also pictured below), and are similarly recorded in the annals under their Monarch.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Participation</div>
+<p>
+The Kickoff is a '''Battle Report Contest''' held every January.  The first was held in 2016.  Participants record a battle played at home, over the forum, or over the chat (so long as the some portion of the battle takes place within the contest's submission period) and submit a polished presentation of the proceedings to the appropriate subforum (typically, "Reports from the Field" or "Forum Battles"). In 2025, '''The Rekon Rekap''' was added to the contest as a special community event that runs in tandem.  The Rekap allows community members to submit their favorite batreps from the previous year (excluding previous contest winners) to a giant poll the community as a whole then votes on to determine a favorite.
+</p>
-In 2022, Royals became Royal Court members and in 2023, this was simplified to the more accurate "Courtiers."
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Judgement</div>
+<p>
+Judges rate entries based on four main categories: Fun, Violence, Presentation, and Writing. Fun and Violence are rated on a scale of 1-10. Presentation and Writing are rated on a scale from 1-5. A fifth category, Theme (which changes each year), is used as a tiebreaker. It is rated on a scale of 1-10. The four main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Theme Score (the three Theme ratings added together) among them.
+</p>
-In 2025, The Rekon Rekap was added to the contest as a special community event that runs in tandem.  The Rekap allows community members to submit their favorite batreps from the previous year (excluding previous contest winners) to a giant poll the community as a whole then votes on to determine a favorite. That winner joins the year's Royal Court as a Knight and gains a unique custom digital badge.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Rewards</div>
+<p>
-Contest Badges designed by Quantumsurfer.
+Winners earn the title '''"Monarch"''' and its associated digital badge. Anyone who participated in their battle and aided in their ascension becomes a member of the Royal Court, earning the title '''"Courtier"''' and its associated digital badge. Courtiers were originally called Royals, which was changed to Royal Court in 2022, and to the present title in 2023. The winner of the Rekap joins the year's Royal Court, earning the title of '''"Knight"''' and its associated digital badge. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.
+</p>
-[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14756 '''2016''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15893 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16773 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17449 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17821 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18360 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18678 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18937 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19163 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19296 '''2025''']|
 <center>
-<gallery perrow=6>
+<gallery perrow=9>
 File:2016 Monarch Badge.png|''2016 Monarch Badge''
 File:2016 Royal Badge.png|''2016 Royal Badge''
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 File:2025 Courtier Badge.png|''2025 Courtier Badge''
 File:2025 Knight Badge.png|''2025 Knight Badge''
+File:2026 Monarch Badge.png|''2026 Monarch Badge''
+File:2026 Courtier Badge.png|''2026 Courtier Badge''
+File:2026 Knight Badge.png|''2026 Knight Badge''
 </gallery>
 </center>
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 | - From the Annual Introduction
 }}
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Contest Years</div>
+<p>
+[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17479 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17837 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18381 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18719 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18948#p368451 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19168&p=369439#p369439 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19315 '''2025''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19433 '''2026''']|
+</p>
-The FigBarf is a minifig build contest held every February.  The first was held in 2019.  Themes are presented as part of the yearly contest.  Participants create specialized minifigs using either unmodified elements or modified elements, take images, and submit them to the Armory subforum in one of the two categories: Purist Pugilists and Kustom Kharacters.  Three judges are selected from among community volunteers who rate each minifig on Style, Story, and Photography, with Thematic Potential as a Tie Breaker Judging Category.  Each is rated on a scale from 1-10 and added together for a Total Judge Score and Total Judge Scores are added together for a Final Score.  Final Scores are compared for the winners of each category (Purism Prometheus and Kustomizer Kraftsman) and the winner overall is awarded the coveted StudGod title.  Every title comes with a unique custom digital badge (to be pictured below) and is marked down in the BrikWars Hall of Fame.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Participation</div>
+<p>
-In 2021, the contest was altered to retire the StudGod Badge and the idea of an overall winner, instead including a Digital Diva Badge for the winner of a third category called Digital Dudes (which is meant for the use of digital software like LDD or Stud.io in the creation of entries).  It was decided that all contests of a categorical nature would follow this formula, with there being winners of multiple categories and no overall winner among them.
+The FigBarf is a '''Minifig Building Contest''' held every February. The first was held in 2019. Participants create specialized minifigs using either unmodified elements, customized elements, or digital recreations. To avoid clogging the forum, participants place all their entries in a single thread in the Armory subforum. Entries are submitted to one of three categories: Purist Pugilists (for pure construction toy builds), Kustom Kharacters (where anything custom is allowed), and Digital Dudes (for digital minifigs).
+</p>
-Contest Badges designed by Bookwyrm from 2019 - 2022, by Quantumsurfer from 2023 onward.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Judgement</div>
+<p>
+Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Style, Story, and Presentation. Style and Story are rated on a scale of 1-10, while Presentation is rated on a scale from 1-5. A fourth category, Thematic Potential, is used as a tiebreaker and is rated on a scale from 1-10. The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Thematic Potential Score (the three Thematic Potential ratings added together) among them.
+</p>
-[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17479 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17837 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18381 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18719 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18948#p368451 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19168&p=369439#p369439 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19315 '''2025''']|
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Rewards</div>
+<p>
+The winner of each submission category earns a title and a badge: '''"Purism Prometheus"''' for Pugilists, '''"Kustomizer Kraftsman"''' for Characters, and '''"Digital Diva"''' for Dudes. Originally, there was an overall winner called StudGod but this position and title (for this contest) was retired in 2021. The digital category was added the same year. Contest badges were designed by Bookwyrm from 2019 - 2022 and by Quantumsurfer from 2023 onward.
+</p>
 <center>
-<gallery perrow=6>
+<gallery perrow=9>
 File:2019 Purism Prometheus Badge.png|''2019 Purism Prometheus Badge''
 File:2019 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge.png|''2019 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge''
@@ Line 175: / Line 226: @@
 File:2025 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge.png|''2025 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge''
 File:2025 Digital Diva Badge.png|''2025 Digital Diva Badge''
+File:2026 Purism Prometheus Badge.png|''2026 Purism Prometheus Badge''
+File:2026 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge.png|''2026 Kustomizer Kraftsman Badge''
+File:2026 Digital Diva Badge.png|''2026 Digital Diva Badge''
 </gallery>
 </center>
@@ Line 185: / Line 239: @@
 | - From the Annual Introduction
 }}
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Contest Years</div>
+<p>
+[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=15012 '''2016''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16015 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16837 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17518 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17875 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18422 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18752 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18969 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19185 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19344 '''2025''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19450 '''2026''']|
+</p>
-The Build is a brick building contest held every March.  The first was held in 2016.  Participants create any kind of build (ranging from single figures to entire vignettes) using construction brick toys or representative digital programs (such as LDD).  Themes may be presented as part of the contest, in a non-restrictive role, but typically the builds need only be representative of the BrikWars game, setting, and/or community.  Submissions are entered as one of three specific Types of builds: Brik by Brik (IRL builds typically posted to the "Armoury" subforum), Digital Dimension (LDD or similar digital builds posted to the "LDD" subforum), and Drunken Madness (either kind of build crafted by the participant while legally drunk posted to the appropriate subforum).  Three judges are chosen from among community volunteers to rate each submission to the contest based on the quality of categorical values including Style, Substance, and Photography.  Boast (a brief written embroidery of the truth explaining why the submission is the grandest build or an interesting story about it) is used as a tiebreaker category.  Secondary Judges are called for to judge submissions entered by a current judge.  Each judge rates the categories on a scale from 1-10, which when added together produce the judge's Total Score.  Total Scores are added together to obtain the submission's Final Score, the highest of which is the winner of the contest.  The winner is given a title based on the Build Category their submission won: "BrikMason" for Brik by Brik (the title was called StudLord in the first year), "Digital Architekt" for Digital Dimension, and "Town Drunkard" for Drunken Madness.  The winning submissions of these three winners are then compared together to create an overall winner for the contest, who is additionally titled "StudGod."  Every title comes with a unique custom digital badge (to be pictured below) and is marked down in the BrikWars Hall of Fame.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Participation</div>
+<p>
-In 2021, the StudGod Badge was retired.  From that point forward (as a categorical contest) the Blarney Build would have three winners, one each for the Digital, Real Bricks, and Drunken categories.
+The Blarney is a '''Construction Contest''' held every March. The first was held in 2016. Participants create any kind of build (from small vehicles to entire vignettes using either real construction brick toys or representative digital programs and post entries to the Armory or LDD subforums. Entries are submitted to one of three categories: Brik by Brik (for real builds), Digital Dimension (for digital builds), and Drunken Madness (for either kind of build where the builder is legally, but responsibly, hammered).
+</p>
-Contest Badges designed by Quantumsurfer.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Judgement</div>
+<p>
+Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Style, Substance, and Presentation. Style and Substance are rated on a scale of 1-10, while Presentation is rated on a scale from 1-5. A fourth category, Boast, is used as a tiebreaker and is rated on a scale from 1-10. Boast is a little different from the tiebreakers of other contests because it does not necessarily rely on the build presented in the entry but rather on the exagggerated stories the builder tells about the build (in real life or in the narrative of the build). The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Boast Score (the three Boast ratings added together) among them.
+</p>
-[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=15012 '''2016''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16015 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16837 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17518 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17875 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18422 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18752 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18969 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19185 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19344 '''2025''']|
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Rewards</div>
+<p>
+The winner of each submission category earns a title and a badge: '''"Brikmason"''' for Brik by Brik, '''"Arkitekt"''' for Dimension, and '''"Drunkard"''' for Madness. Originally, there was an overall winner called StudGod but this position and title (for this contest) was retired in 2021. Brikmason was originally titled StudLord but this was changed after the first year in 2017. The other two rewards were shortened to their current one word titles in 2023. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.
+</p>
 <center>
-<gallery perrow=6>
+<gallery perrow=9>
 File:2016 Digital Arkitekt Badge Version2.png|''2016 Digital Arkitekt''
 File:2016 StudLord Badge Version1.png|''2016 StudLord Badge''
@@ Line 231: / Line 296: @@
 File:2025 BrikMason Badge.png|''2025 BrikMason Badge''
 File:2025 Town Drunkard Badge.png|''2025 Town Drunkard Badge''
+File:2026 Digital Arkitekt Badge.png|''2026 Digital Arkitekt Badge''
+File:2026 BrikMason Badge.png|''2026 BrikMason Badge''
+File:2026 Town Drunkard Badge.png|''2026 Town Drunkard Badge''
 </gallery>
 </center>
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 | - From the Annual Introduction
 }}
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Contest Years</div>
+<p>
+'''This contest has been discontinued.''' It was cancelled due to low participation.
+</p>
-The Feast of Fools was an event that took place in April, from 2017 to 2018.  In it, participants created any kind of presentation they wished (battle reports, forum battles, chat battles, magic soaps, brikfics, setting content writeups, graphics or art, videos, etc.) that non-canonically expanded upon, recognizably transformed, or otherwise explored the content creations of other community members (with respect given to "Everyone's the Boss of Their Own Toys" and similar community guidelines).  Primarily, contest entries explored alternative possibilities such as What If scenarios, Elseworlds like content, Mirror Universes, and so on.  The contest was held in good fun and celebrated collaboration and brainstorming community based content.
+[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16214 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16896 '''2018''']
-Obviously, this contest's core concept was found broadly (one might think of fanfiction, for example) but this forum had a notable precedent called "Maeby's Cannon."  Posts were often tagged with this identifier to denote content that is, at least initially, non-canonical.  Coined by forum user [[Silverdream]], the phrase is an intentional misspelling of "Maybe Canon" and is a Schrödingeresque description of materials that are not canon until, in fact, they are.
-Submissions were entered anywhere on the forum and linked to from the contest's thread.   Three judges were chosen from among community volunteers to rate each submission to the contest based on the quality of categorical values including Fun, Transformation, and Depth.  Presentation was used as a tiebreaker category.  Secondary Judges were called for to judge submissions entered by a current judge.  Each judge rated the categories on a scale from 1-10, which when added together produced the judge's Total Score.  Total Scores were added together to obtain the submission's Final Score, the highest of which was the winner of the contest.  The winner was titled a "Grand Jester," received a unique custom digital badge (pictured below), became a member of that year's Royal Kourt, and was marked down in the BrikWars Hall of Fame.
-The contest lasted two years before being cancelled due to lack of participation owing generally to the poor timing of the contest.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Participation</div>
+<p>
+The Feast of Fools was a '''What If? Contest''' that took place in April, from 2017 to 2018.  In it, participants created any kind of presentation they wished (battle reports, forum battles, chat battles, magic soaps, brikfics, setting content writeups, graphics or art, videos, etc.) that non-canonically expanded upon, recognizably transformed, or otherwise explored the content creations of other community members (with respect given to "Everyone's the Boss of Their Own Toys" and similar community guidelines).  Primarily, contest entries explored alternative possibilities such as What If scenarios, Elseworlds-like content, Mirror Universes, and so on.  The contest was held in good fun and celebrated collaboration and brainstorming community based content. Submissions were entered anywhere on the forum and linked to from the contest's thread.
+</p>
-Contest Badges designed by Quantumsurfer.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Judgement</div>
+<p>
+Judges rated entries based on three main categories: Fun, Transformation, and Depth. A fourth category, Presentation, was used as a tiebreaker. All categories were rated on a scale of 1-10. The three main category scores were added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score was added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry won the contest. Tied Final Scores were broken by the highest Presentation Score (the three Presentation ratings added together) among them.
+</p>
-[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16214 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16896 '''2018''']
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Rewards</div>
+<p>
+Winners earned the title '''"Grand Jester"''' and its associated digital badge. Additionally, Grand Jesters were added to that year's Royal Court (determined in January by the Rekon Kickoff Contest). Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.
+</p>
 <center>
-<gallery perrow=6>
+<gallery perrow=9>
 File:2017 Feast of Fools Badge Version1.png|''2017 Feast of Fools Badge''
 File:2018 Feast of Fools Badge Version1.png|''2018 Feast of Fools Badge''
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 | - From the Annual Introduction
 }}
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Contest Years</div>
+<p>
+[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19007 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19205 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19361 '''2025''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19460 '''2026''']|
+</p>
-Mayhem is a minifigure squad building composite contest held in May, beginning in 2023.  In it, participants each create a battlepack of around 4 minifigs and a small associated build which represent either a New or Legacy Faction.  These entries are submitted to the Armoury or LDD forum under one of the two categories (new or legacy factions) and are judged at the conclusion of the contest by three volunteer judges pulled from the community.  Judges can enter as participants but their entries are judged by another, secondary judge to keep things fair.  Judges score entries based on three criteria: Theme (cohesiveness of concept), Substance (mechanics of the builds), and Story (introduced lore).  A fourth criteria, Photography, is used as a tie-breaker.  Each criteria is scored on a scale from 1-10 and added together for an individual Judge's Score of between 3-30.  These are added together to create the entry's Final Score, which are then compared across the category to find a winner.  The winner of the Legacy Faction category is gifted the Founder Badge while the winner of the New Faction category is gifted the Pioneer Badge.  Both enter into the ranks of BrikWars Royalty (see below).
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Participation</div>
+<p>
+Mayhem is a '''Minifig Squad Building Composite Contest''' held in May. The first was held in 2023. Participants create a battlepack (around 4 minifigs and a small associated build), in real bricks or with digital representations. Entries are submitted to one of two categories: New (for new canon one year old or younger) or Legacy Faction (for a take on existing canon, older than one year, respecting Creative Commons guidelines).  These entries are posted to the Armoury or LDD forum, as appropriate.
+</p>
-Contest Badges designed by Quantumsurfer.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Judgement</div>
+<p>
+Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Theme, Substance, and Story. A fourth category, Presentation, is used as a tiebreaker. All categories are rated on a scale of 1-10. The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Presentation Score (the three Presentation ratings added together) among them.
+</p>
-[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19007 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19205 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19361 '''2025''']|
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Rewards</div>
+<p>
+The winner of each submission category earns a title and a badge: '''"Pioneer"''' for New Factions and '''"Founder"''' for Legacy Factions. Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.
+</p>
 <center>
-<gallery perrow=6>
+<gallery perrow=9>
 File:2023 Founder Badge.png|''2023 Founder Badge''
 File:2023 Pioneer Badge.png|''2023 Pioneer Badge''
@@ Line 281: / Line 373: @@
 File:2025 Founder Badge.png|''2025 Founder Badge''
 File:2025 Pioneer Badge.png|''2025 Pioneer Badge''
+File:2026 Founder Badge.png|''2026 Founder Badge''
+File:2026 Pioneer Badge.png|''2026 Pioneer Badge''
 </gallery>
 </center>
@@ Line 291: / Line 385: @@
 | - From the Annual Introduction
 }}
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Contest Years</div>
+<p>
+The annual introduction was changed to its current form in 2020 during a challenging time when folks didn't need yet another special event satirizing violence but instead might find something unifying more useful.  The event still operates wholly within the bounds of the BrikVersian Setting and extended community canon.
+</p>
-The annual introduction used to read: "Welcome, BrikWarriors, to the midpoint of the year.  It is a time of celebration across the BrikVerse as kanon settles into the comfortable, roaring pattern of repeated fire.  For many, it is also a celebration of nationality and homeland pride as the factions for the rekonstruktion settle into the deepest state of warfare and fueding.  Fireworks flare as often as rocket fire and parties, both the dancing and war varieties, spontaneously erupt everywhere.  The denizens of the BrikVerse let loose in full swing and engage in the best acts of debauchery and butchery seen all year.  These celebrations will set the tone for the remainder of the rekon."  This was changed in 2020 during a challenging time when folks didn't need yet another special event satirizing violence but instead might find something unifying more useful.  The event still operates wholly within the bounds of the BrikVersian Setting and extended community canon.
+[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16964 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17623 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18096 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18482 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18820 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19045 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19230 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19372 '''2025''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19372 '''2026''']|
-The Jamboree is an event that takes place in June and July, beginning in 2018.  In it, participants create any kind of scenic build using construction brick toys or representative digital programs (such as LDD).  Themes are presented in the contest as tiebreakers, with entries hewing closer to events that have occurred within the calendar year within the canon edging out a victory over the competition.  Submissions are made to the Armoury or LDD forum.  Three judges are chosen from among community volunteers to rate each submission to the contest based on the quality of categorical values including Style, Substance, and Photography.   Secondary Judges are called for to judge submissions entered by a current judge.  Each judge rates the categories on a scale from 1-10, which when added together produce the judge's Total Score.  Total Scores are added together to obtain the submission's Final Score, the highest of which is the winner of the contest.  The winner is given the title of "Master of Ceremonies" and an associated unique badge.  In a unique twist, a second and third place winner are chosen as well and each have titles and badges as well (Director and Photographer, respectively).
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Participation</div>
+<p>
+The Jamboree is a '''Scene Building Contest''' held each year through the months of June and July. The first was held in 2018. Participants create any kind of scenic build using real construction bricks or representative digital programs. Entries are posted to the Armory or LDD subforums.
+</p>
-Contest Badges designed by Quantumsurfer.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Judgement</div>
+<p>
+Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Style, Substance, and Theme. A fourth category, Presentation, is used as a tiebreaker. All categories are rated on a scale of 1-10. The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Presentation Score (the three Presentation ratings added together) among them.
+</p>
-[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16964 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17623 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18096 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18482 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18820 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19045 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19230 '''2024''']|
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Rewards</div>
+<p>
+Instead of submission category winners, this contest awards a title and a badge to the top three scoring entries: '''"Master of Ceremonies"''' (for 1st place), '''"Director"''' (for 2nd place), and '''"Photographer"''' (for 3rd place). Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.
+</p>
 <center>
-<gallery perrow=6>
+<gallery perrow=9>
 File:2018 Photographer Badge Version1.png|''2018 Photographer Badge''
 File:2018 Director Badge Version1.png|''2018 Director Badge''
@@ Line 326: / Line 433: @@
 File:2025 Director Badge.png|''2025 Director Badge''
 File:2025 Master of Ceremonies Badge.png|''2025 Master of Ceremonies Badge''
+File:2026 Photographer Badge.png|''2026 Photographer Badge''
+File:2026 Director Badge.png|''2026 Director Badge''
+File:2026 Master of Ceremonies Badge.png|''2026 Master of Ceremonies Badge''
 </gallery>
 </center>
@@ Line 336: / Line 446: @@
 | - From the Annual Introduction
 }}
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Contest Years</div>
+<p>
+[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16516 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17209 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17678 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18231 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18551 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18872 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19083 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19255 '''2024''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19394 '''2025''']|
+</p>
-The Hundred Piece Hullabaloo is an event that takes place in September, beginning in 2017.  Like the Blarney Build, participants create any kind of build (ranging from single figures to entire vignettes) using construction brick toys or representative digital programs (such as LDD).  Themes may be presented as part of the contest, in a non-restrictive role, but typically the builds need only be representative of the BrikWars game, setting, and/or community.  The builds must be constructed from one hundred (100) pieces or less.  Submissions are made to the Armoury forum.  Three judges are chosen from among community volunteers to rate each submission to the contest based on the quality of categorical values including Style, Substance, and Photography.  Boast (a brief written embroidery of the truth explaining why the submission is the grandest build or an interesting story about it) is used as a tiebreaker category.  Secondary Judges are called for to judge submissions entered by a current judge.  Each judge rates the categories on a scale from 1-10, which when added together produce the judge's Total Score.  Total Scores are added together to obtain the submission's Final Score, the highest of which is the winner of the contest.  The winner is given the title of "StudGod," joining the existing pantheon.  The title comes with a badge unique to the contest.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Participation</div>
+<p>
+The Hullabaloo is a '''Microbuild Contest''' held every September. The first was held in 2017. Participants create any kind of build they like using real construction bricks or representative digital programs. Crucially, however, participants are limited to using only 100 pieces.
+</p>
-Contest Badges designed by Quantumsurfer.
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Judgement</div>
+<p>
+Judges rate entries based on three main categories: Style, Substance, and Presentation. Style and Substance are rated on a scale of 1-10, where Presentation is rated on a scale of 1-5. A fourth category, Story, acts as a tiebreaker and is rated on a scale of 1-10. Like the Blarney's Boast, Story is used here to elaborate on the build using description or narrative. The three main category scores are added together for each judge to generate their Total Score. Each judge's Total Score is added together to generate the entry's Final Score. The highest scoring entry wins the contest. Tied Final Scores are broken by the highest Story Score (the three Story ratings added together) among them.
+</p>
-[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=16516 '''2017''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17209 '''2018''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17678 '''2019''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18231 '''2020''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18551 '''2021''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=18872 '''2022''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19083 '''2023''']|[https://brikwars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19255 '''2024''']|
+<div style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em;">Rewards</div>
+<p>
+Winners earn the title '''"StudGod"''' and its associated badge (now the only true way to earn the title). Contest badges were designed by Quantumsurfer.
+</p>
 <center>
-<gallery perrow=6>
+<gallery perrow=9>
 File:2017 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge Version1.png|''2017 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge''
 File:2018 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge Version1.png|''2018 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge''
@@ Line 353: / Line 476: @@
 File:2023 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge.png|''2023 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge''
 File:2024 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge.png|''2024 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge''
+File:2025 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge.png|''2025 Hullabaloo StudGod Badge''
 </gallery>
 </center>
@@ Line 366: / Line 490: @@
 *[[Arkbrik]], Knight
 *[[AZKAMAT]], Lord of Battle
-*[[bertinator]], Photographer, Monarch of 2,023 and 2,024, Purism Prometheus, Two-Time Master of Ceremonies, Founder, Two-Time Lord of Battle
+*[[bertinator]], Photographer, Monarch of 2,023, 2,024, and 2,026, Two-Time Purism Prometheus, Two-Time Master of Ceremonies, Founder, Two-Time Lord of Battle
 **2,023 Royal Court: ''Cyberman, BrickWarrior, Mr. President, Vyron, Dienekes22''
 **2,024 Royal Court: ''Bragallot, Dienekes22, MadMario, Nervyr, Quantumsurfer''
+**2,026 Royal Court: ''Dienekes (Courtier and Knight), Nervyr, Quantumsurfer, MadMario, Bragallot''
+*[[brickvignettes]], StudGod
 *[[Bookwyrm]], Badge Designer, Monarch of 2,019, Director
 *[[Bragallot]], Loremaster
@@ Line 375: / Line 501: @@
 **2,018 Royal Court: ''Scratch, Quantumsurfer, Lawmaster''
 *[[Cyberman]], StudGod
-*[[Dienekes22]], Lord of Battle, Two-Time LoreMaster, Master of Ceremonies, Director, Founder
+*[[Dienekes22]], Lord of Battle, Two-Time LoreMaster, Master of Ceremonies, Director, Founder, BrikMason
-*[[Duerer]], Town Drunkard, Lord of Battle, LoreMaster, Six-Time Digital Arkitekt, Three-Time Digital Diva
+*[[Duerer]], Town Drunkard, Lord of Battle, LoreMaster, Six-Time Digital Arkitekt, Four-Time Digital Diva
 *[[Eliphaser]], Pioneer
-*[[EternityOfDeath]], Director
+*[[EternityOfDeath]], Director, Master of Ceremonies
 *[[FEEB]], Loremaster
 *[[Food_Truk]], Lord of Battle
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 *[[Killer Karetsu]], Lord of Battle
 *[[Kommander Ken]], Lord of Battle, Kustomizer Kraftsman, StudGod, Loremaster
-*[[MadMario]], Two-Time Purism Prometheus, Four-Time Brikmason, Two-Time StudGod, Monarch of 2,020, Three-Time Town Drunkard, Lord of Battle
+*[[MadMario]], Two-Time Purism Prometheus, Four-Time Brikmason, Two-Time StudGod, Monarch of 2,020, Three-Time Town Drunkard, Two-Time Lord of Battle
 *[[Mr. President]], Director
-*[[Nerv]], Monarch of 2,025
+*[[Nerv]], Monarch of 2,025, Kustomizer Kraftsman
-**2,025 Royal Court: ''EternityofDeath, ThePhoenix, Quantumsurfer, Vomarsk, Arkbrik (Knight)''
+**2,025 Royal Court: ''EternityofDeath, ThePhoenix, Quantumsurfer, Vomarsk, Arkbrik (Knight), Mergo (Honorary Undisputed GOAT)''
 *[[user:negacolette|ninja_bait]], Badge Designer, Four-Time Town Drunkard, StudGod, BrikMason, Master of Ceremonies, Lord of Battle
+*[[not Dave or Daniel]], Digital Arkitekt
 *[[Ooyama]], Photographer
 *[[Quantumsurfer]], Contest Master, Badge Designer, LoreMaster, StudGod
-*[[Radekal]], StudGod, LoreMaster, Founder
+*[[Radekal]], StudGod, Two-Time LoreMaster, Founder
 *[[RedRover]], Town Drunkard, Purism Prometheus, Photographer
-*[[Red_SPAMbot]], Purism Prometheus, Kustomizer Krraftsman
+*[[Red_SPAMbot]], Purism Prometheus, Kustomizer Kraftsman
 *[[sahasrahla]], Purism Prometheus
 *[[silasw]], Photographer
-*[[Silent-sigfig]], Monarch of 2,016, Town Drunkard
+*[[Silent-sigfig]], Monarch of 2,016, Town Drunkard, Director
 **2,016 Royal Court: ''bann154, Valiant, Kastrenzo, mgb519''
 *[[Silverdream]], Grand Jester
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 *[[Space Bunny]], Digital Diva, Photographer, Director
 *[[Swordsalmon]], Lord of Battle
-*[[TEORI]], Five-Time Kustomizer Kraftsman, Director, Purism Prometheus
+*[[TEORI]], Five-Time Kustomizer Kraftsman, Director, Purism Prometheus, Photographer
 *[[Theblackdog]], Brikmason
 *[[Valiant]], Master of Ceremonies
 *[[Vami IV]], LoreMaster
 *[[Vomarsk]], Pioneer, Photographer
-*[[yurp]], Pioneer
+*[[yurp]], Pioneer, Town Drunkard
 *[[Zahru II]], Lord of Battle, Three-Time StudLord/BrikMason, StudGod
 *[[Zupponn]], Halloween Hellhunt Master, Lord of Battle